Scarf-retainer.



PATBNTBD SEPT. 22, 1903.

R. L. GOODING. SGARP RBTANER..

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 9, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

'UNITED STATES Patented September 22, 1903.

APrrrENT OFFICE.

SCARF-RETAIN'ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,668, dated September 22,' 1903.

' Application 'filed May 9, 1903. Serial No. 156,466. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, REGINALD LESLIE Goon- ING, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Bridgetown, Island of Barbadoes, British West Indies, have invented a new and Improved Scarf-Retainer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to wearing-apparel; and its object is to provide a new and improved scarf retainer or clip which is simple and durable in construction, easily applied, and arranged to securely hold the depending portions of the scarf or other tie securely in place on the shirt-bosom.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be more fully, described hereinafter and then pointedout in the claim,

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which 'similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a reduced front elevation of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional plan view of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the improvement.

The improved scarf or tie retainer isjmade from a single piece of spring-wire bent to form a bottom piece A of U shape and having its side members A' extending approximately parallel one to the other to terminate Vat their ends in inwardly and upwardly the plane extending through the side members A' of the bottom piece.

Now by the arrangement described the middle portion A5c of the bottom piece A can be readily passed under the overlying ilap B of a shirt-bosom to guide the clip, so as to nally engage the ball end of the clamping members A3 with the top lof the depending flaps or aprons C of the scarf or tie to allow the clamping members A3 to yield upwardly, and thereby clamp the depending aprons C firmly in place on the outer face of the bosom-flap B.

The cross-arm A2 limits the inward sliding movement of the retainer or clip by abutting against the outer edge of the flap B.

Now from the foregoing it will be seen that the device is very simple in construction and can be rendered highly ornamental by the use of precious stones or the like on the ball A5, and the retainer iirmly secures the scarfaprons in position on the bosom to give a dressy appearance to the user.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As a new article of manufacture, a tie-retainer made of a single piece of wire, formed into a U-shaped bottom piece having its side members terminating .at their ends in inwardly and upwardly turned cross-arms, from which extend integral clamping members, curved first downwardly and then upwardly, and extending approximately parallel midway between the side members of the bottom piece to within a short distance of the middle or connecting portion of the said bottom piece and having their ends secured together,

'and an ornamental ball secured to the united terminals of the said clamping members, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

REGINALD LESLIE GODING.

llitnesses:

I. ADoLPHUs Grr'rENs, R. S. SHEPHERD. 

